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...winter with painful "splints," tumor-like growths on his shinbones. Nonetheless, he had won six straight stakes and $392,996, and odds makers already had installed him as the 8-5 favorite to win the Kentucky Derby May 1. Nobody paid much attention to Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 7-1), a colt that anybody could have claimed for $7,000 last April-if anybody had wanted him. True, Flag Raiser had won two in a row, including this month's Gotham Stakes, by a total of 91 lengths, but the railbirds insisted that he was strictly...
Armory for 10,000 people, including the Johnsons and the Humphreys, who were introduced by Gala Chairman Arthur Krim, president of United Artists and a tireless Democratic Party fund raiser. The two-hour variety spectacular featured Alfred Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Johnny Carson, Mike Nichols, Elaine May, Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews and Carol Channing. Harry Belafonte, wearing one of his custom-made undress shirts, knocked out a Michael Row the Boat Ashore, slipping in a few lines about Mississippi and Alabama. Barbra Streisand belted out Happy Days Are Here Again and People for the folks listening without loudspeakers in Baltimore. Dame...
...traditional high school hero has been the star athlete; the serious young scholar who did not go out for a team was usually scorned as a "curve raiser" who made it tough on his classmates. The tradition may be changing. "I think the athletes are losing out," observes Daniel G. McMurtrie, 17, from Detroit's Denby High School. "It's In to be an individual and not be afraid to bring up serious questions." Jimmy Fitzpatrick, a senior at Santa Monica High School, is In with the local surfing crowd. His hero is James Bond...
Yesterday's $12.5 million grant to Harvard by the Ford Foundation was not a windfall; rather, it is the direct result of President Pusey's unexampled patience and foresight as a fund-raiser. Congratulations are also due the Foundation, which directed its generosity with wisdom. Harvard, though widely respected for its faculty in most of the social sciences, has always been weak in "area studies," particularly in African and Latin American affairs; the Ford money will greatly strengthen these studies...
...very few people." During the Music Center campaign, Buff kept constantly before her a list of ten to 15 prospects. "If I kept looking at the whole list," she explains, "I would never have slept." And it was not just a question of quantity but quality, because "a fund raiser should be at various times a psychiatrist, a psychologist, a marriage counselor, and even a sort of family doctor. You have to know the family situation at all times. Divorce, illness, death-or just a routine change in the family financial situation-can inhibit contribution." Buff even consults astrology...